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The Chinese men's football team, which is preparing for the World Cup qualifiers in Dalian, recently received good news: FIFA has confirmed to the Asian Football Confederation that the yellow cards of the 18 teams participating in this stage of the competition in the round of 36 will not be counted in the round of 18. The Chinese team can go all out in the first round match against Japan.

In late June this year, the Asian Football Confederation took the opportunity of the round of 18 group draw ceremony held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to propose to FIFA that the single yellow cards received by the participating teams during the round of 36 should not be counted in the next stage of the competition. Of course, players who received yellow cards in the last round of the round of 36 and accumulated two yellow cards in this stage of the competition, as well as players who received red cards in the last round of the round of 36, will still be automatically suspended in the first round of the round of 18.

It is reported that the AFC made this proposal mainly because the World Cup Asian qualifiers are different from the qualifiers of other continents. In other words, the 2026 World Cup Asian qualifiers are also the 2027 Asian Cup qualifiers. Among them, the teams that advance in the second stage of the World Cup Asian qualifiers will enter the top 18, and the remaining 18 teams eliminated in that stage will participate in the third stage of the 2027 Asian Cup qualifiers together with the teams eliminated in the first stage of the qualifiers, so as to compete for the last 6 tickets to the final stage of the event. Therefore, in order to ensure fair competition among the teams in Asia (AFC member associations), the AFC proposed the above motion to FIFA and finally obtained the consent of FIFA.